Bürgerbräu Wolnzacher Roggenbier

Brewed by Bürgerbräu Wolnzach
Style: Specialty Grain
Wolnzach, Germany

A spicy molasses scent. NIce cloudy apple cider brown color. Clean, non-cascade hoppy finish with a bitter touch. Nice apple flavors and champagne yeasts with a slight sour finish. The rye really give this a unique flavor. Some pumpkin spice here and there. Very refreshing with aroma and flavors of dates and rich teas. I don’t know why this isn’t a more popular style.

Creamy look was the first impression. Aroma was very fruity, with a citrus bite. Not a very strong taste that you would expect from the look. THe pour was very different from the taste. Very well rounded taste and nice after taste. Very nice.

Cloudy dark gold pour with a nice fluffy head. Some lace. Very nice aroma. Malty. Slighly wheaty. Banana, citrus, some spices and rye come out more. The flavor follows suit. The banana is a bit more muted, spices develop into more distinct flavors: cloves. The citrusy hops are there. Rye shows up as well. Tangy palate and a nice citrusy finish. Nice.

Hazy dark auburn, sandpaper ash mixed with burgandy. Lots of carbonation and a puffy big head with some lacing. The aroma is very malty with notes of cream, banana, clove, caramel and the prerequisite rye. The flavor is very smooth with the rye really biting through the wheat and malt body. Highly carbonated mouthfeel with a tangy citrusy tail. Very good and surprising.

This was a pretty impressive brew. Ther wasn’t an overall hallmark to the beer other than crackery character. Bad label, lots of flocculent floaties down at the bottom 1/5 of the bottle. Yeasty biscuits and crackers. This beer is looking for food.

Labels itself as a Rye beer, first real try of one other than Sunrye, which is suspect. Light orange appearance, long lasting, thin white head. fruity, banana-like aroma with some esther notes. Yeast and fruit is prominent. Has a bit of a starchy palate which is the one flaw I find. Otherwise, an interesting little ale.

The beer was purchased in a brown, 0.5 liter bottle with a rather poorly applied label. The beer pours murky orange with a whole lot of yeast sediment in the glass. The head is fizzy and average sized (about ½ inch in the Pilsner glass). The aroma is yeasty and fruity and vaguely similar to a Belgian dubbel without the spices or the brown sugar. The taste is an intriguing one, somewhat similar to a weizen in its citrus-banana-clove-bubblegum yeast profile, but is a lot earthier and heartier as a result of the rye malt. It has a sour-sweet doughy chewiness, and is quite sticky on the palette. If beer is liquid bread, this one must be liquefied sticky orange buns.

This is a muddy-chunky brown beer. Super sweet aroma and a nasty sweet aroma and flavor, like spoiled vegetables. My bottled exploded, so I wonder if it was contaminated. This is only for the strong willed heavy beer drinkers, to be sure.